Sentence examples for proprietary it from inspiring English sources

Also, whereas Apple chose to keep its software proprietary — it could run only on machines that Apple made — Gates licensed Windows to any computer manufacturer that wanted it, just as he had done with DOS.

And one of them is "private" or "proprietary"; it is Amazon.

Although the display system is proprietary, it is based around open standards.

Given the huge variety of connected devices, and no doubt the desire of some firms to keep things proprietary, it is possible that no single standard ever emerges.

This obviates grinding and packing and makes cleaning effortless, but because the capsules are proprietary it also locks users in.Even so, says Mr Nosler, "the hardware side of the business is woefully behind the times".

The designers argue that because OpenFlow should open up hardware and software systems that control the flow of Internet data packets, systems that have been closed and proprietary, it will cause a new round of innovation focused principally upon the vast computing systems known as cloud computers.

The belief is that by making it open source and non-proprietary, it's significantly more secure and less costly to maintain.

The slide show, she says, "was his baby, and he felt proprietary about it and it was hard for him to let go".

And it was proprietary, meaning it was yours forever to publish or mull endlessly as you desired.

But of course it's all proprietary because it's Sony.

The molfile format is still very popular and despite it being a proprietary format, it has become a de facto standard.